Friday 2nd September 2016
When I was young all I wanted to be was a hairdresser when I left school. I got myself an apprenticeship and got myself qualified.
I eventually got my own salon and I ran it for many years. I have always been able to do my own hair – it is about the only thing I have ever valued about myself.
I have been seeing Jenny for about 8 months now. I have since then been sorting out my health. She told me a while back that I might have a few side effects. It could make my skin worse, though it has made mine better, or it could make my hair fall out.
Some people don’t get any side effects at all. I just didn’t want my hair to fall out.
However for the last few months that is what has been happening.
This is what Jenny says about Hair loss:
“When the body losses a large amount of weight, especially if you have been over weight during your 40s, our endocrine system needs to adjust to the size change.
As you can image the amount of hormones that are required to maintain a 20 stone body compared to a 16 stone body is quite different. Take into account that when the sugar consumption reduces too, the need for insulin, cortisol and estrogens to metabolise the sugars and balance body functions are suddenly reduced.
Therefore our thyroid and adrenal organs can go into shock, and this often results in a sudden hair loss, which is quite worrying, however it’s a real positive sign the body is adjusting to the new levels of hormones required to maintain the body mass.
I have a mind map that shows common symptoms and issues related to our adrenal and thyroid functions.”
With the fact that I was expecting this I have been doing my own little experiment. I have been putting my hairdressing skills to the test.
Your hair goes through a 7 year cycle. In that 7 years your hair has a resting stage, a growing stage and a falling out stage. Each individual hair goes through the stages at different times – if it didn’t your hair would all be falling out at once. It can however have more of the hair on one stage at one time.
It just means that most of my hair is on the falling out stage at the minute. After the falling out stage is the growing stage. This hair grows back at an accelerated rate so it can catch up with the rest.
I have noticed that my hair, after it has fallen out, is growing back a lot quicker.
I have my hair coloured every month but I missed last month because I was worried it would all fall out. I have recently had it done though and I am happy to say it didn’t all fall out.
My hair normally is really thick and it takes a lot of work. Now, though, it is thinner but it is so much better. It is growing back healthier than I have ever seen it before.
So the side effects are not really side effects at all – they are improvements.
I am happy to say though that the hair loss is now slowing down. I hope this doesn’t mean it is going to get thicker again.
Start weight 21st 5lbs
16st 7.8lbs. ⬅️➡️. 67.2lbs⬇️total
Start weight 136.5kg
105.1kg. ⬅️➡️. 31.6kg⬇️total
